…Let's open VirtualBox.…The very first thing we'll see is the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager interface.…At the top there are number of controls for managing virtual machines.…New will create a VM, Settings is for configuration,…Start will boot a VM, and Discard deletes the VM.…Underneath that on the left is a list of all…the virtual machines in your system, which is currently empty.…We're going to have to do something about that.…Click New to create a new virtual machine, which will bring…us to a wizard that will walk us through the VM creation.…

First, we'll specify a descriptive name to identify the new virtual machine.…I'm going to set the name Sandbox.…The type is the operating system that we plan on installing, which, in…our case, is Linux and the version, in our case, is Ubuntu 64 bit.…Specifying the type and version doesn't actually install the…operating system, but it does set the label and icon.…Click Continue.…The guest virtual machine consumes resources from the host and…the amount of memory or RAM needs to be specified.…

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6/13/2014

Need a fast, powerful, and free development environment? Learn how to set up a virtual Linux web server on your Mac or Windows computer quickly—no additional formatting, dual booting, or hardware required. Author Jon Peck shows you how to set up a virtual machine with VirtualBox, download and install a Linux server, and then configure the additional LAMP stack elements: Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The course also describes how to create a database and users, install development tools like Xdebug, manage your source code with Git, and troubleshoot common installation and configuration issues.

The demonstrations are performed with the Ubuntu LTS distribution of Linux, but the skills taught here are also applicable to other Linux distributions. Every command is described in detail in context, and a comprehensive quick reference is provided for convenience.